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| Good morning from Washington, where much head-scratching greets President Obama's decision to free the soldier who gave state secrets to WikiLeaks. Cully Stimson analyzes the move. In a departure from tradition, Obama isn't leaving town or staying quiet after Donald Trump takes over Friday. Fred Lucas has that story. Plus: Abigail Doty on Harvard and the decline of higher education, Morgan Walker on Newt Gingrich's take on Trump and spending, and Katrina Trinko on feminists who can't make room for pro-life women. |
CommentaryObama's Commutation of Manning Sentence Sends a Horrible Message This is a case about an Army private first class who, while stationed abroad, having access to top secret and other classified material, decided to steal that material and give it to WikiLeaks, knowing full well that WikiLeaks would publish the material for the world to see. Read More |
NewsObama Isn't Planning to Be as Silent as Bush in Post-Presidency President Barack Obama says he appreciated George W. Bush's silence during his eight years in office. Now, as the current president prepares for life outside the White House, his aides have given mixed messages about just how political Obama will be during the Trump administration. Read More |
CommentaryOnce Again, Feminists Silence Pro-Life Women As much as the left (and some of their cheerleaders in the media) love to portray women as a unified bloc of pink-wearing Planned Parenthood cheerleaders who cherish no political right as much as they do the right to abortion, the political reality is far more complicated. Read More |
FlashbackFacing Obamacare's Requirements, This Nashville Deli Closed When Tom Loventhal learned he would be faced with the added expense of providing his more than 50 employees with health insurance—he estimated it would cost between $70,000 and $100,000 annually—he decided to close his restaurant's door. Read More |
NewsNewt Gingrich Explains How Trump's Policies Will Lead to a Balanced Budget Newt Gingrich, who played an integral role in balancing the federal budget during the Clinton administration, provided Trump and his team with the same insights that made a balanced budget possible in the 1990s. Read More |
CommentaryWhat Went Wrong in US Higher Ed? Harvard Tells the Story Charles W. Eliot, Harvard president, said in his 1869 inaugural address, "The worthy fruit of academic culture is an open mind, trained to careful thinking … penetrated with humility. It is thus that the university in our day serves Christ and the church." Read More |
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Daily on Defense: Jeffries plots end run for Ukraine aid, Austin back working from home, Ukraine donor group meets, Russian warship sunk, Putin’s poor memory
Follow us on Twitter View this as website BY JAMIE MCINTYRE ADVERTISEMENT JEFFRIES: ALL LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE: The pressure is on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to find a way to bypass House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring the $95 billion foreign aid bill that sailed through the Senate 70-29 to a vote on the House floor, where it would surely also pass with a wide bipartisan majority. "There are clearly more than 300 members of the House of Representatives, the overwhelming amount of Democrats and a significant number of Republicans, who would support the national security legislation, were it to receive an up-or-down vote on the floor of the House," Jeffries said on CNN yesterday. Jeffries’s best bet is a long shot, a rarely successful legislative maneuver known as a "discharge petition," which would require at least four Republicans